Re: [FYI] Remove $SED from basename and dirname definitions

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On 13 Feb 2004, at 07:32, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:21, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > > "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >  Ralf> Just curious: should't zsh be configurable to change this 
> > behaviour?
> >
> > Yes it is.  See _AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE.
> *nods* it's SH_WORD_SPLIT iirc, but as most of these scripts get called
> prefixed with $SHELL, it's probably saner (and at least more widely
> compatible) for us to just stick to a saneish subset of shell where 
> it's
> this easy rather than fiddle with random shell options.

Longer term we should probably generate all of our scripts with m4sh, 
and use
AS_SANITIZE to twiddle all the ksh and zsh options for bourne 
compatibility...
If there is time to do that between me finishing the documentation for 
patch-84 and your making a patch to move TAGS into LT_INIT, then I'll 
see how much work that
involves...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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